IMD Startup Competition:26 Swiss startups with huge opportunity

The IMD team in collaboration with CTI, investiere, MassChallenge Switzerland and Venture Kick has selected 26 startups from 135 candidates for the 19th IMD Startup competition. 15 will work with fulltime MBAs and 11 will collaborate with IMD’s EMBAs and travel to Silicon Valley.

“This year 135 ventures applied to the IMD startup competition, the most we ever had. This made the triage very difficult, especially because at least half of the files we reviewed were of extremely high quality and a good fit with the our programs”, says Jim Pulcrano and Benoit Leleux, Member of the EMBA Teaching Team at IMD business school. A few venture leaders and TOP100 startups are nominated.

FORIMTECH, Iris Desforges & Eugene Grigoriev
The startup has developed an interactive probe for the treatment of tumors.

Haelixa, Michela Puddu
DNA-tracer based solutions for an improved underground assessment of geothermal and oil reservoirs to guarantee an efficient and sustainable energy future. Michela Puddu is well known to our readers. She has been a venture leader this year and led her team as the captain to the US.

regenHU, Marc Thurner
A three dimensional biotechnology company, exploiting the potential of 3D bioprinting & cell based therapies – is leading the development of biomedicall products for regenerative medicine & drug discovery.

Viprodev, Luciano Torres & Fabiana Visentin
The startup is selling a revolutionary device that is able to provide real-time depth information using an regular RGB cameras with a portable dedicated hardware, being very useful for robotics, drones, selfdriving cars, VR and AR application.

BeeHelpful, Alessandro Gamberoni & Gianmario Riganti
BeeHelpful developed and sells worldwide a new patented honeybee hive that redesigns the beekeeper economy, saves the honeybees, and sets a new standard. We recently talked with Alessandro about his startup.

Hydromea, Felix Schill & Alexander Bahr
Hydromea, the new standard to find out what’s in the water – fast, consistent, complete.

Intento, Andrea Maesani
Intento has developed a medical device to enable severely paralyzed stroke patients to recover motor function. Intento recently won the Venture Kick final and received 130’000 CHF. Get some background informations on Intento in this interview.

Loanboox, Stefan Muehlemann
loanboox is a platform for issuing public sector debt.

MachIQ Industrial Services, Roy Chikballapur
MachIQ is a 2-sided SaaS offering intelligent software for Industrial Asset Performance Management to manufacturing companies and a comprehensive platform for their machine suppliers to deliver after sales services including spare parts sales, remote technical support and other Industry 4.0-enabled services.

Timbtrack, Quentin d’Huart & Günther Marten González-Carrascosa
The startup has developed a technology that gives users the tools to map out, inventorize, measure and evaluate their forest in seconds in order to maximize productivity.

TwentyGreen, Duncan Sutherland
TwentyGreen produces greener feed for sustainable and responsible animal farming. Duncan Sutherland was a venture leader in China. We spoke with him about this trip and his startup.

SMEx, Arnaud Salomon
SMEx is a Financial Services Platform built upon the concept of a Currency Marketplace dedicated to SMEs which offers each of its members international payment accounts in 30 currencies with secure, fast and affordable payment features.